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XIII. THE ROOF.
CONSTRUCTION.
appear to sympathise with an expression, common, I think, to
all the buildings of that group, of a natural buoyancy, as if
they floated in the air or on the surface of the sea. But, assuredly, they are not features to be recommended for imitation.*
§ iv. One form, closely connected with the Chinese concave, is, however, often constructively right,—the gable with
Fig. xxxvn. an inward angle, occurring with ex
quisitely picturesque effect throughout the domestic architecture of
the north, especially Germany and
Switzerland; the lower slope being
either an attached external penthouse roof, for protection of the
wall, as in Fig. XXXVIL, or else a
kind of buttress set on the angle of
the tower; and in either case the
roof itself being a simple gable,
continuous beneath it.
§ v. The true gable, as it is the
simplest and most natural, so I esteem it the grandest of roofs;
whether rising in ridgy darkness, like a grey slope of slaty
mountains, over the precipitous walls of the northern cathedrals, or stretched in burning breadth above the white and
square-set groups of the southern architecture. But this difference between its slope in the northern and southern structure is a matter of far greater importance than is commonly
supposed, and it is this to which I would especially direct the
reader's attention.
§ vi. One main cause of it, the necessity of throwing off
* I do not speak of the true dome, because I have not studied its construction enough to know at what largeness of scale it begins to be rather
a tour deforce than a convenient or natural form of roof, and because the
ordinary spectator's choice among its various outlines must always be dependent on aesthetic considerations only, and can in no wise be grounded on
any conception of its infinitely complicated structural principles.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 1 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000181 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 150 XIII. THE ROOF. CONSTRUCTION. appear to sympathise with an expression, common, I think, to all the buildings of that group, of a natural buoyancy, as if they floated in the air or on the surface of the sea. But, assuredly, they are not features to be recommended for imitation.* § iv. One form, closely connected with the Chinese concave, is, however, often constructively right,—the gable with Fig. xxxvn. an inward angle, occurring with ex quisitely picturesque effect throughout the domestic architecture of the north, especially Germany and Switzerland; the lower slope being either an attached external penthouse roof, for protection of the wall, as in Fig. XXXVIL, or else a kind of buttress set on the angle of the tower; and in either case the roof itself being a simple gable, continuous beneath it. § v. The true gable, as it is the simplest and most natural, so I esteem it the grandest of roofs; whether rising in ridgy darkness, like a grey slope of slaty mountains, over the precipitous walls of the northern cathedrals, or stretched in burning breadth above the white and square-set groups of the southern architecture. But this difference between its slope in the northern and southern structure is a matter of far greater importance than is commonly supposed, and it is this to which I would especially direct the reader's attention. § vi. One main cause of it, the necessity of throwing off * I do not speak of the true dome, because I have not studied its construction enough to know at what largeness of scale it begins to be rather a tour deforce than a convenient or natural form of roof, and because the ordinary spectator's choice among its various outlines must always be dependent on aesthetic considerations only, and can in no wise be grounded on any conception of its infinitely complicated structural principles. |
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